This episode is chock full of excitement! Maddie tests out the galley with some chicken and loves the new sink and cutting boards. We are visited by Matt and ...

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Over the past two and a half years we have made many change to the running rigging. This video shows most of the things we changed on the running rigging, and ...

The classical rule for qualifying a sailboat as a cutter or a sloop relates to the position of the mast. If the mast is far forward, it’s a sloop, if it’s aft, ...

Herby builds the frames for the new solar panels and then the couple rents a smart car to travel around the island and drive to the most amazing hiking trails ...

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We finally got our residency visa! After 6 months of frustration and work, we finally got our temporary residency visa in our passports! While this process ...

The boat work is finally finished so they rent a Smart car and go hiking! The Azores are famous for their gorgeous hikes but the boat projects have kept them ...

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Flash through the galley completion and join Herby for the construction of our new deck rack! Maddie cleans like crazy and takes us on a walk through Angra. ...

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Living on the hard is by far the least pleasant part of living on a boat. It’s like doing a mini-remodel of your tini-house, which hopefully is only necessary ...

When we set off to go cruising, we made the decision to leave our pets that we love dearly and leave them with our parents. Why? Why not take them cruising? ...

A special live Q&A we held just for our Patrons. We talk about all things about buying boats in Europe, the most useful books and the future of F.A. ...

The galley refit is finished! Maddie gives the new galley a test run in our new sink surrounded by the mahogany butcher block counter top. Herby also gets to ...

There's a big crowd of sailors coming to Opua, New Zealand about the same time to in order to get away from typhoon season in higher latitudes and Bay of ...

This video explains how to use hand signals to communicate instructions from the foredeck to the helm. By removing some of the shouting from the boating ...

International travel brings about a bunch of different experiences. One of them is going to be language! Learning a language by immersion is a very effective ...

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Herby gets to work on building the galley out of Sapele Mahogany. The plan is to make an edge grain butcher block counter top that will be strong and ...

We have just finished up our sailboat refit in the Azores. We are frequently asked why we didn't do all of this work in the United States before we left. This ...

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We installed a lot of panels and a lot of wind generators and a lot of alternators....but how efficient are they while sailing? This week we share how the ...